Earth Science

Remote Mediterranean islands were settled long before agriculture—challenging a key assumption about the limits of Europe’s last hunter-gatherers at sea....

A sweeping new analysis of the Laurentian Great Lakes is reshaping how scientists think about winter ice. Drawing on a...

Marine life has not evolved in isolation from the architects of its habitats. A new study in Nature Communications reports...

Rice researchers have long debated whether genetic engineering has actually delivered the promised gains in yield and resilience. A new...

Sixty-six million years ago, a kilometer-scale asteroid slammed into Earth near today’s Yucatán Peninsula, excavating the Chicxulub crater and triggering...

Soil may look lifeless, but it shelters an enormous viral population that continually reshapes microbial life. In a new study,...

Coastal cities are used to floods arriving “suddenly,” but new research suggests many inundations follow a clockwork pattern. A study...

Marine primary productivity—the engine that supports marine food webs and draws down carbon dioxide—may have been overestimated for decades, according...

A new study has ignited debate about how far below Earth’s surface methane can persist—and where it might come from—by...

A new study in Communications Earth & Environment reports a user-centric renewable energy framework designed to power self-sufficient, zero-carbon infrastructure...